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Google Street View Gets Usable With Smart Navigation
Google’s street-level mapping imagery – called Street View – can at times be useful if you want to see what a place you’re trying to find looks like. However, if you’ve ever wanted to explore beyond a snapshot of a location, you’ve likely found the user experience fairly cumbersome, if not downright unusable at times.
Today, the Google Maps team has unveiled a new feature that makes actually navigating through Street View significantly better. Now, Maps will show you, “an oval when your mouse is following a road and a rectangle when moving across the facades of buildings.” Google refers to these shapes as “pancakes,” and once you figure out how exactly they work, they turn Street View into a fairly enjoyable – if not highly useful – experience.
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.\n\nThere are 366 maps, also available as PDF posters. Use the menu above or click on a thumbnail image below to view a map.
GeoGreeting!
This is potentially the cutest use of maps that I have seen yet. Geogreeting allows you to spell out a message in buildings found on Google maps. \n\nYour friends will see your animated geoGreeting when they click on the link.
GeoRSS Home
Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds. \n\nThis site describes a number of ways to encode location in RSS feeds. As RSS becomes more and more prevalent as a way to publish and share information, it becomes increasingly important that location is de
Modest Maps
Modest Maps is a BSD-licensed display and interaction library for tile-based maps in Adobe Flash 7+, written in ActionScript 2.0.\n\nOur intent is to provide a minimal, extensible, customizable, and free display library for discriminating designers and de
Google Maps API Official Blog: KML and GeoRSS Support Added to the Google Maps API
One of the things I love most about Google Maps and Google Earth is that it's easy for anyone to create and display new geographically referenced content. Whether it's pictures from your vacation, favorite places on the globe, or the hiking trails you lik
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